I can’t run a query like:
SELECT table1.name FROM dataset1.table1
nor can I run
SELECT dataset1.table1.name FROM dataset1.table1
So I can’t even begin to play with joins. How are we supposed to run joins in bigquery when you have to specify the dataset with the table name?
Thanks Jordan, that’s what I was doing wrong. I’m used to mySQL where that select would work fine but in BQ that doesn’t work. Once I wrote out the entire join the table names were picked up correctly.